This afternoon officially presents the collection of stories about emotions that Castellnou Infantil Juvenil has prepared together with the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. Are the Toni and Tina stories, designed to work on emotion management with children through fun and everyday stories.
Each story focuses on an emotion and includes a guide with practical activities, so parents and educators can teach children to identify each of the emotions, acting before them. These books are a good tool for the social and emotional learning of the little ones through proposals that generate dialogue, games and orientations for adults. They are available in Spanish and Catalan.
Advances in the design, implementation and evaluation of social and emotional learning programs achieved in the last decade, have shown that emotional education can reduce conflicts in the school environment, and that it turns out to be effective in improving grades
Emotional intelligence is a competition that is acquired both in school and in the family, and the daily stories that Toni and Tina (two rabbits who are friends) live can boost the education of emotions in these two environments.
These two characters encourage children to recognize, understand, express and positively manage emotions. The stories are aimed at children from two to seven years who will identify with Toni, Tina and their experiences.
The stories are written and illustrated by the tandem Meritxell Martí and Xavier Salomó, who have extensive experience in the field of children's literature.
The contents of the Guide for parents and educators have been prepared by three experts linked to the FAROS Observatory (platform for the promotion of health and child welfare of Sant Joan de Déu). They are María Ángeles Mairena, Esther Garcia and Inma Roger.
The first two titles are already on sale: 'A storm of ... fear' and 'What a game rage'. The collection began to take shape after the publication of the practical book 'How to educate emotions' last year.
